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Kevin McLaughlin / The Information:
Twitter Cut Key Software Before DeSantis Audio Glitch — On Wednesday night, Twitter experienced multiple outages during a high-profile live audio forum on the app in which Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launched his presidential campaign. While the specific reason for the flub couldn't be learned …
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Twitter engineering boss Foad Dabiri quits day after DeSantis launch glitches
Twitter engineering boss Foad Dabiri quits day after DeSantis launch glitches
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Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:
DeSantis Signs Bill Shielding Musk's SpaceX From ‘Spaceflight Entity Liability’
DeSantis Signs Bill Shielding Musk's SpaceX From ‘Spaceflight Entity Liability’
Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
‘Not a Big Social Media Guy’: DeSantis Tells Newsmax He'd Rather Watch Cable News ‘Than Be on Some App’ After Disastrous Twitter Launch
‘Not a Big Social Media Guy’: DeSantis Tells Newsmax He'd Rather Watch Cable News ‘Than Be on Some App’ After Disastrous Twitter Launch
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Washington Post:
Conservatives revolt as negotiators try to finish debt ceiling deal — Although not yet made public, the emerging agreement between McCarthy and Biden is already coming under fire from the right — Conservative lawmakers have begun mounting a campaign against the emerging deal …
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
Reinventing the Sequester — The emerging deal would allow congressional Republicans …
Reinventing the Sequester — The emerging deal would allow congressional Republicans …
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Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
Deal with it: Negotiators may be zeroing in on a debt ceiling agreement
Deal with it: Negotiators may be zeroing in on a debt ceiling agreement
Jamilah Lemieux / Slate:
My Nephew's Bathroom Habits Are a Little Unsettling — Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. — Dear Care and Feeding, — Last week, I took a road trip with my sister “Lasey” and my nephew “Bill.” Bill is 8, and his father isn't in the picture.
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Are the Anti-Trump GOP Forces Starting to Implode? — A mission-control breakdown for DeSantis and smooth launch for Scott bode ill for those hoping to thwart the former president. — NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Will this go down as the week that the grand plan to deny Donald Trump the nomination fell apart?
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Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
DeSantis, Day One: Trump ‘turned the country over to Fauci’
DeSantis, Day One: Trump ‘turned the country over to Fauci’
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
DeSantis says he would push to repeal Trump criminal justice reform if elected
DeSantis says he would push to repeal Trump criminal justice reform if elected
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
‘Trump has the charisma of a mortician’: Donald Jr confuses dad with DeSantis
‘Trump has the charisma of a mortician’: Donald Jr confuses dad with DeSantis
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Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Jessica Watkins: Oath Keepers member and Army veteran sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for January 6 — Jessica Watkins, an Army veteran and member of the far-right Oath Keepers, was sentenced Friday to 8.5 years in prison for participating in a plot to disrupt the certification …
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Graham Kates / CBS News:
Prosecutors in Trump's criminal case say they have recording of Trump and a witness — Prosecutors in former President Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal case have released to his attorneys a recording of Trump and a witness, whose identity was not disclosed, according to a document the office made public Friday.
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Ben Nagle / Daily Mail:
'They have unlimited money - they love it!': Donald Trump attempts to ramp up the excitement for LIV Golf as he turns up for first day of play at his own course in Washington DC... and says Saudis have been ‘fantastic’ for golf — Donald Trump's DC course is hosting the latest round of LIV Golf's 2023 season
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Heather Digby Parton / Salon:
Trump and the Saudis: Is Jack Smith finally looking at this clear-cut corruption?
Trump and the Saudis: Is Jack Smith finally looking at this clear-cut corruption?
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Dan Sullivan / Tampa Bay Times:
Tucker Carlson, Fox News hacks tied to FBI search of Tampa council member's home — The search at City Council member Lynn Hurtak and Tim Burke's home was part of a probe into computer hacks at Fox News. — TAMPA — An FBI search earlier this month at the home of media consultant Tim Burke and his wife …
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Illia Ponomarenko / The Kyiv Independent:
Why some Ukrainian soldiers use Nazi-related insignia — You're closely following the living history of a nation bravely resisting an imperialistic war of aggression that has inspired the world when, all of a sudden, you come across a picture of a Ukrainian soldier wearing a Totenkopf …
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Zac Anderson / Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
GOP officials: Top aides in governor's office asked lawmakers to endorse DeSantis — Top aides to Gov. Ron DeSantis were involved in rounding up endorsements for his presidential campaign from members of the Florida Legislature during a time when lawmaker's bills and budget priorities …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
DeSantis's shameless defense of the Amanda Gorman fiasco is revealing — At this point, it should be obvious that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's culture-war directives are designed to encourage parents to indulge in book purges for sport. Precisely because removals have become so easy …
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Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Effort to impeach Ken Paxton, led by fellow Republicans, sets off political earthquake in Texas — Republicans have chosen to remain largely silent during years of alleged misconduct and lawbreaking by the attorney general. Now they will have to take a public stand.
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The Texas Tribune:
Attorney General Ken Paxton faces impeachment. Here's how that works in Texas.
Attorney General Ken Paxton faces impeachment. Here's how that works in Texas.
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Jessica Levinson / MSNBC:
Kavanaugh just went against his fellow conservative justices — for good reason — The fact that Kavanaugh broke with his conservative colleagues on Thursday shows us how truly baseless the court's reasoning is. — When the Supreme Court's conservative majority so bungles its interpretation …
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Treasury Expects to Run Out of Cash by June 5 — The latest estimate comes as Republicans and the White House are trying to reach an agreement to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a crippling default. — Reporting from Washington — Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said on Friday …
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Scott Horsley / NPR:
Yellen sets new deadline for Congress to raise the debt ceiling: June 5
Yellen sets new deadline for Congress to raise the debt ceiling: June 5
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James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
The Man Who Kept the Secrets — Eighty years ago, a U.S. Navy captain chose to go down with the ship. — The son of a Medal of Honor recipient always suspected that something was wrong with the official story about his father's service in World War II. And the son was right to be suspicious.
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Boebert dismisses antisemitism push as effort to target conservatives — Aftter White House announces effort to combat hatred of Jews, GOP congresswoman says it's a way to ‘go after conservatives’ — President Biden on Thursday released the country's first national strategy for combating antisemitism …
Wajahat Ali / The Daily Beast:
CNN Can Never Wash Away the Trump Disaster Stench — Try as it might to move on from the Trump town hall debacle by inviting Haley and Pence to do similar events, CNN can never undo the damage. … Some people decide to climb out after falling into a hole, and then there's CNN.
Daily Mail:
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Revealed - Bill Gates's younger Russian ‘lover’ and her links to notorious Kremlin spy Anna Chapman — The Microsoft tycoon's links to Epstein are troubling enough — But now our investigation asks: Was he drawn into the scandal over Moscow's bid to infiltrate the rich and powerful in the West?
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Evidence grows that Trump hoarded documents — and showed them to people — We have reached one of those points in reporting on Donald Trump's post-presidency retention of documents when it's useful to take a step back. — On Thursday, The Washington Post teased out another aspect of this complicated situation.
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CNBC:
Tech layoffs ravage the teams that fight online misinformation and hate speech — Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Twitter have all drastically reduced the size of their teams focused on internet trust and safety as well as ethics as the companies focus on cost cuts.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
What Does It Mean to be a “Supporter” of a Candidate? — No Triad on Monday—have a great Memorial Day weekend. And please read Will Selber's magnificent, heartrending piece in which he remembers some of his comrades. — Warning: Today's edition is fairly self-indulgent. I hope you'll forgive me.
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Michael Gartland / New York Daily News:
NYC Council's Italian-American caucus lodges ethics complaint against Councilman Chi Ossé, cites ethnic slights — The New York City Council's Italian-American caucus has filed a formal complaint with the lawmaking body's Standards and Ethics Committee over remarks made by Councilman Chi Ossé …
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Brute force and the reactionary SCOTUS majority's assault on clean water — Justice Sam Alito's five-justice majority, including Chief Justice John Roberts, upended 45 years of agency and court interpretations of the Clean Water Act — and the law itself. — The environment is worse off …
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